Minneapolis police reopen 1996 cold case after tip on Dunlap

Police say a tip in March prompted investigators to reopen the investigation into the death of 31-year-old Anne Dunlap.

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Posted May. 20, 2013 at 11:00 PM

By Associated Press
Posted May. 20, 2013 at 11:00 PM

Minneapolis, Minn.

Minneapolis police have reopened a 17-year-old case of a woman found stabbed to death in the trunk of her car.

Police say a tip in March prompted investigators to reopen the investigation into the death of 31-year-old Anne Dunlap. She was found Jan. 1, 1996, in a Kmart parking lot in south Minneapolis.

At the time, she and her husband Brad Dunlap were living temporarily with her parents while the couple was building a home in the suburbs.

"The information that we received stems from a conversation that Brad had years earlier, way before this murder occurred," Minneapolis police spokeswoman Cindy Barrington told KARE-TV (http://kare11.tv/10ZpkZK ). "(It is) significant information of a prior conversation from Brad Dunlap that led to us reopening this case."

No one was ever charged with the murder. Police have long considered Dunlap the prime suspect, but Barrington said she didn't want to label one person as a suspect.

"The investigators that have been assigned to it were not in the homicide unit back in 1996," she said. "So, it is a fresh set of eyes on the case and they have been told to start at page one."

Now in Arizona, Brad Dunlap has remarried and has two children, KARE-TV reported. Two numbers listed under the name Brad Dunlap in Scottsdale, Ariz., rang unanswered Saturday afternoon when tried by The Associated Press.